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Video Analysis with Tracker: TPT Package

written by
Douglas Brown and
Anne Cox

Video Analysis with Tracker: TPT Package contains several video analysis and modeling experiments from introductory physics as described in "Innovative Uses of Video Analysis" The Physics Teacher, 2009. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive containing the Tracker video analysis application, movies, models and instructionsa which can be modified by the user. Tracker, a video analysis program with dynamical modeling, is an Open Source Physics tool.

Please note that this resource requires
at least version 1.5 of
Java (JRE).

Re: .mov

> On Aug 22, 2009, Diego Racero posted:> > I just downloaded> the TPT package but when I try to run a simulation> I receive a message saying that the .mov file was> not found.> How can I solve this problem?> > Thanks for> your help.

Re: .mov

Please note that the tracker_tpt.jar must be able to create a folder and then put the .mov files in that folder on your computer. Is it possible that your computer is protected in such a way that it does not allow files to write to the computer? If this is the case, you may be able to "unzip" the file (it is a java archive that can be unpacked just like a compressed ZIP file) and then run the tracker_tpt.jar file. Then if Tracker can't find the .mov files, you can point Tracker to the appropriate file in the newly unzipped "movies" folder on your computer.

> On Aug 22, 2009, Diego Racero posted:> > I just downloaded> the TPT package but when I try to run a simulation> I receive a message saying that the .mov file was> not found.> How can I solve this problem?> > Thanks for> your help.

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Video Analysis with Tracker: TPT Package:

The Physics Teacher article on Innnovative Uses of Video Analysis is the basis for this Launcher package. That article demonstrates how video analysis and modeling can be used to introductory laboratory concepts.